"I believe that we are fundamentally the..." - Quote by Dalai Lama

“Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.”

“Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind”

“How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.”

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”

“We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.”

“For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.”

“People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.”

“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.”

“One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.”